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Crop of the NOIRLab image of the Small Magellanic Cloud showing the globular cluster 47 Tucanae.
Original caption: Part of the SMASH dataset showing what is arguably the best wide-angle view of the Small Magellanic Cloud to date. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and, unlike the rest of the satellite galaxies, are still actively forming stars — and at a rapid pace.
Monochrome image of the SMC, through an Hα filter, created from a stack of 20 x 3min exposures (north is up).
Equipment used: 24mm Canon lens attached to an ASI585MM-Pro camera. Equivalent focal length was 90mm producing a 15° FOV.
Colour version of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) taken with a cropped sensor DSLR + 50mm lens.
Created from a stack of 20 x 180sec images take at f/2.8 & ISO400.
Plate A02189 made on December 2, 1896 using the 24-inch Bruce doublet telescope in Arequipa, Peru. Annotations show variable star work in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Dimensions:
14x17"
Plate B20678 made on October 29, 1897 in Arequipa, Peru with the with the 8-inch Bache Doublet. Small Magellanic Cloud and globular cluster 47 Tucanae. This plate was used by Henrietta Swan Leavitt for her 1908 paper on variables in the Magellanic Clouds.
Dimensions:
8x10"
The SMC is seen here as an Hα monochrome image with a FOV of 13° x 7°. Many bright Hα nebulae are easily seen within.
To the right is the distinctive globular star cluster known as 47 Tucanae, along with the smaller star cluster 75 Tucanae above the SMC.
Near the edge of the SMC, towards the bottom right (4 o'clock position) lies a large grouping of nebulae often referred to as "The Magnificent Seven".